all the divine dispensations therein recorded. Our Gop bath done, is doing, and will do all things well. It is altogether tion. To an enlightened observer, they both carry indubitable marks of their great original. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth is full of his riches. The most perfect catalogue of stars, before the present ingenious and indefatigable Dr. HERSCHEL appeared, did not contain quite 5,000; but, by the vast superiority of his glasses, he hath discovered 44,000 stars in a few degrees of the heavens*; and by the fame proportion, it is supposed, that 75,000,000 are exposed in the expanse to human investigation. All these stars are of a fiery nature, and conjectured to be fo many funs with their systems of planets moving round them. We know the fun to be the centre of our system. It is accompanied with 19 planets, besides about 450 comets. What an amazing idea does this give us of the works of God! And if such is the Work, what must the WORKMAN be! Every part of nature, moreover, with which we are acquainted, is full of living creatures, with stores of every kind to fupply their necessities. This little globe of ours is known to contain within its bowels a great variety of valuable minerals, and to be covered with about 20,000 different species of vegetables, 3,000 species of worms, 12,000 species of infects, 200 species of amphibious animals, 550 species of birds, 2,600 species of fish, and 200 species of quadrupeds. How immenfe then must be the number of individuals! One fly is found to bring forth 2000 at a time, and a single cod-fish to produce confiderably more than three millions and a half of young. Nay, Leewenhoek tells us, that there are more animals in the milt of a single cod fish, than there are men upon the whole earth. Over all these creatures preside upwards of 730 millions of human beings. Such is the family of the GREAT FATHER here upon earth! And when it is confidered, that the earth itself, with all its furniture, is no more, when compared with the whole system of things, than a single grain of sand, when compared with a huge mountain, we are loft in the immenfity of God's works, and constrained to cry out, Lord, what is man, that thou art mindful of him. or the son of man that thou visitest him! And if to this immensity of the works of creation, we add the admirable structure of the whole, and the exquifitive perfection of every part, we shall not fail of being exceedingly affected with the ineffable wisdom of the DIVINE ARCHITECT. Το bring this confideration more within the grasp of human comprehenfion, let us take, as it were, to pieces, and examine the several parts of any one creature which God hath made; and we shall find a perfection among its deveral powers, and an adaption to its fituation in the grand scale of * See the Differtation of Dr. HERSCHEL, relative to this brilliant portion of the heavens, in the Philofophical Transactions. + JEROME DE LALANDE, Director of the French Obfervatory, fupposes that a glass of HERSCHEL'S powers may discover 90 millions of stars in the whole surface of the heavens, and that even, 'this number is but small, in comparison of what exiits, ¥ 3 Monthly Mag. for Oct. 1798. p. 265. exiftence together fit he should govern his own world, and bow the rebellious nations to his sway. The present degenerate state of Christendom is too disgraceful to his government, to be permitted to continue beyond the predicted period. He will, therefore, arife and plead his own eause, and al the wickedness of men, and the convulfions and distress of nations, shall wind up to his eternal credit. The LORD is King, be the people never so impatient;, he fittesh between the Cherubim, be the earth never so unquiet. His Gospel is no other than the plan devised by infinite wifdom for the melioration of mankind. The immortal feed is fown; the principle of life has vegetated; the little leaven is diffusing itself far and wide. Much has been done; much is doing; much shall be done. 'Millions of reafonable creatures have already found eternal reft in confequence of the REDEEMER's dying love: multitudes, of fouls at this moment are happy in their own bosoms under a sense of the divine favour; and innumerable myriads of men shall arife, believing in his name, trusting in his me existence, far furpaffing human skill. Let the most perfect anatomift, that ever exifted, make his observations upon the human frame; let him examine with the greatest possible attention the toute enfimile of the structure; then let him proceed to the several parts, of which the microcofm is composed; first, the powers of the mind; the understanding, the will, the memory, the confcience, and the various affections: next the five senses; the touch, the taste, the smell, the hearing, and the fight: afterwards let him proceed to the several fluids of the body; and then to the 300 bones, the 40 different forts of glands, the 406 muscles, the 40 pair of nerves, the fibres, the membranes, the arteries, the veins, the lymphæducts, the excretory vessels, the tendons, the ligaments, the cartilages; and let him explore the whole and every part with the greatest degree of accuracy, knowledge, and judgment, that ever centered in man; and then let him honeftly say, whether he could suggest the smallest improvement in any one respect. If he were an Atheist before fuch investigation, like the celebrated GALEN he would be converted to the belief of the DIVINE EXISTENCE, would compose an hymn in praise of the CREATOR of the world, and fing with the great Progenitor of mankind: "These are thy glorious works, PARENT of good; Almighty, thine this universal frame, "Thus wondrous fair; THYSELF how wondrous then! " Unspeakable! who fitt'st above these heav'ns, "To us invisible, or dimly seen "In these thy lowest works; yet these declare "Thy goodness beyond thought, and pow'r divine," diation diation, and rejoicing in his falvation, maugre all the opposition of fallen Christians and apostate spirits. Wife and gracious- is the DIVINE BEING in all his ways, and I rejoice that he is the GOVERNOU'R among the people. To his service 1 avowedly devote my feeble powers, as long as he shall vouchsafe me the exercise of them; nor will I cease to speak the honours of his MAJESTY, while the breath continues to actuate this mortal frame. And, "When even at last the folemn hour shall come, APPENDIX I. HE Reformation contended for in these papers is a T peaceable reform, begun and carried on by the wisdom of the three branches of the Constution, as far as the Conftitution is concerned; and by the Bishops, and Clergy of every denomination, so far as the moral and religious conduct of the people is concerned. The absolute necefsity of fuch a reformation is founded on the prophetic declarations of DANIEL before repeatedly mentioned. The nature of the reformation I conceive to be necessary to our lafting prefervation as a kingdom, is, that whatever militates against the genuine spirit of CHRIST's religion in the Establishment should be removed; and that all orders of clerical characters, especially, should fet themselves, with the utmost zeal and determination, first to reform themselves, and then to stop the torrent of iniquity, which threatens to involve the country in the most complete destruction. The Dissenters and Methodists are moving heaven and earth to promote the cause of religion in their refpective ways. If the 18,000 Clergymen in the Establishment would exert themselves for the good of fouls with equal zeal and fervour, the Established Church would not only be the fafer, as an Establishment, but the divine protection would be more effectually engaged on our behalf. Righteous nations never fall. Unfortunately, however, abundance of * Among other unfavourable signs of the times, the vast number of bankruptcies in this kingdom is none of the least. I suppose we average fix or seven hundred every year, beside all the compofition-businesses, which are still more numerous. But what I here chiefly refer to, as a proof of depraved morals, is, that, of all the instances of defraud, inten tional or otherwise, practised upon the public, an instance of after-payment is rarely recorded; and, whenever fuch an instance occurs, it is always spoken of with astonishment, as a thing that could not be expected. If a man goes upon the high road, or breaks into your house, and |